I read the letter Monday with interest, as I have often looked at FactCheck.org for discussions about the distortions and lies in the current campaign. Talk about the kettle calling the pot black!

The writer makes a big thing about Barack Obama’s supposed distortion of Mitt Romney’s Bain record, but conveniently omits any mention from the same website about the distortions and lies from Romney.

For example, Romney claims to have created 100,000 new jobs that happened long after he left Bain Capital. (Romney has never presented any actual data to back up his claim.) Romney blames Obama for job losses for women in the recession that started more than a year before Obama took office. He repeatedly misrepresents the Affordable Care Act.

Romney also twists the facts about TARP. According to the Recovery Board’s own website (www.recovery.gov), most of the tax credits went to U.S. taxpayers and grants to states for Medicare, Medicaid and education.

There are many other distortions and lies that the Republican Party and its cohorts spread. It is about time they are exposed for what they are. If you want to read what FactCheck says about the current campaign, look at the page entitled “Whoppers of 2012, Early Edition.”